But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his valour, wherewith he fought, and how he restored Damascus, and Emath to Juda in Israel, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart. But Joatham the king's son governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.
Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc.